Opal (Seabrook)
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by W.P. Seabrook, Chelmsford, Essex. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1936. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- not ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Over colour
- flushed bright crimson, striped carmine
- Russet type
- some russet dots
- Flesh colour
- cream, tinged orange
- Flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- Ground colour
- pale yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 68.33 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 58.53 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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